Open AccessIntroduction: Cripping the Arts in Canada
Author(s) -
Eliza Chandler
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v8i1.468
Subject(s) - the arts , identity (music) , disability studies , sociology , politics , disabled people , gender studies , ableism , aesthetics , visual arts , political science , law , art , life style , demography
Disability arts are political. Disability arts are vital to the disabled people’s movement for how they imagine and perpetuate both new understandings of disability, Deafhood, and madness/Mad-identity and create new worldly arrangements that can hold, centre, and even desire such understandings. Critically led by disabled, mad, and Deaf people, disability art is a burgeoning artistic practice in Canada that takes the experience of disability as a creative entry point.